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Northern Rivers · Schools

Schools, 1938

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Floods Prevented School Opening Mullumbimby

Northern Star · Wednesday 2 February 1938 · page 6

Last night and early this morning flood rains fell at Main Arm about five miles from Mullumbimby. The registration was between 450 and 500…

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220 New Enrolments at H. SCHOOL Staff Changes

Northern Star · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 6

NEW enrolments at the Lismore High School number approximately 220, and in accordance with the custom at the…

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Cowlong Sunday School Picnic

Northern Star · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 11

The annual picnic of the Cowlong Methodist Sunday School, which was held at East Ballina was a success. Lunch was served at 12 o'clock in the…

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News From All Sources Growing Up! School Boy 8Ft. 41Ns

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 8

The world's tallest schoolboy is Robert Wadlow, of Illinois, America, who, at the age of 18, is 8ft. 4in. tall, and weighs 27st. 21b…

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Adelaide Epidemic Schools Closed Till March 1

Tweed Daily · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Thursday: -- Two cases of infantile paralysis were admitted to the infectious diseases hospital to-day, a boy aged…

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Slight Decline Enrolments at Ballina Inter-high School First Year Classes Ballina

Northern Star · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 6

Although there has been a slight decrease in the number of pupils enrolled in the first year classes at the Ballina Intermediate High…

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Touring School Children To Visit B. Bay Byron Bay

Northern Star · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 6

A party of 140 school children will visit Byron Bay on May 19 during a tour of the Far North Coast. Mr. G. F. Gibson is making…

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Education Facilities Proposals for Minister Reaffirmed Lismore Schools

Northern Star · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 8

THE opinion was expressed at a meeting attended by representatives of public organisations in Lismore last night that no…

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Status Raised Casino Inter. High School CASINO

Northern Star · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 8

The Casino Intermediate High School headmaster, Mr. A. H. Jacobs, has been officially informed that as from January 10 the school would be classed as a…

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Standard Steadily Improving Headmaster's View Tweed Heads Public School

Tweed Daily · Saturday 5 February 1938 · page 8

"It is pleasing to note that the standard of the school is steadily improving, and I am also of the opinion that the standard of the…

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District School P. and C.

Northern Star · Saturday 5 February 1938 · page 6

A meeting of the Lismore District School Parents and Citizens' Association will be held at the school on Tuesday at 7.30 p.m. This is a…

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Reclassification of Schools Council of Teachers' Federation

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 8 February 1938 · page 8

SYDNEY, Monday:--The decision of the Public Service Board to make a reclassification of Public Schools was announced by the President of…

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A Mix-up Transfer of Teachers

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Tuesday 8 February 1938 · page 4

Officials of the Education Department who control transfers and appointments of school teachers appear to have made one bad job this year; in fact it…

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N.s.w.'s Oldest School Headmaster Resigns. Question of Latin and French

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Tuesday 8 February 1938 · page 2

Within 10 days of the beginning of the new term at The King's School, Parramatta, the oldest school in New South Wales, the…

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Infantile Paralysis No Need to Close Schools. Sydney

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Tuesday 8 February 1938 · page 3

The President of the N.S.W. branch of the British Medical Association, Dr. Lindsay Day, said last night that there was no justification for any scare in the…

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Murwillumbah Teachers' Federation Annual Meeting of Branch

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 8 February 1938 · page 8

The annual meeting of Murwillumbah Branch of the Teachers' Federation was held on Saturday at the Murwillumbah Public…

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Where Do Our Rhodes Scholars Go?

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 9 February 1938 · page 6

The announcement that a son of a Rhodes Scholar has just achieved the same distinction, reopens the perennial discussion:…

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Enrolment at High School Headmaster's Advice P. and C. Meeting

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 9 February 1938 · page 3

The Headmaster of Munvillumbah High School (Mr. A. L. Nairn, M.A.), informed last night's meeting of Murwillumbah High School…

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Paralysis Epidemic Broken Hill Schools Practically Empty SYDNEY

Northern Star · Wednesday 9 February 1938 · page 10

Broken Hill public schools resumed today. after the holiday vacation, but out of an enrolment of nearly 4000 only 69 attended. The reason why…

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Private Interview Denominational School Representatives

Northern Star · Thursday 10 February 1938 · page 12

Messrs. J. B. Carlton, T. E. Rummery and S. J. Hosie, representing the St. Carthage's Roman Catholic Cathedral Schools,…

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